Session 3 - Working with Frames

Modifying Text Frames, Reshaping Frames, Modifying Graphic Frames, Resizing and Moving an Image within a Frame, Wrapping Text around a Graphic, Using the Position Tool, Applying Masters, Placing and coloring text in a colour-filled frame, Orienting objects in space, Adjusting text inset within a frame, Rotating an object, Aligning multiple objects, Rotating an image within its frame.

Session 4 - Importing and Editing Text

Managing fonts, Creating and entering text, Creating a headline and applying a style, Flowing text, Flowing text manually, Flowing text automatically, Resizing a text frame, Working with styles, Applying a style, Loading styles from another document, Vertically aligning text, Threading text, Changing the number of columns on a page, Using semi-autoflow to place text frames, Applying and editing the sidebar styles, Adding a page continuation note, Changing horizontal and vertical text alignment, Finding and changing special characters, Finding and changing a missing font, Checking Spelling of a story, Adding words to a dictionary, Checking spelling dynamically, Automatically correcting misspelled words, Checking Spelling with other languages, Drag and drop text editing, Using the story editor, Creating text on a path.

Session 5 - Working with Typography

Adjusting vertical spacing, Using a baseline grid to align text, Viewing the baseline grid, Changing the spacing above and below paragraphs, Changing fonts and type style, Changing paragraph alignment, Adding a decorative font and special character, Applying special font features, Applying a gradientient to text, Creating a drop cap, Applying a fill and stroke to text, Adjusting the kerning and tracking, Applying the paragraph and single-line composers, Working with tabs, Creating a hanging indent, Adding a rule below a paragraph.

Session 6 - Working with Colour

Defining printing requirements, Adding colours to the Swatches palette, Applying colours to objects, Working with gradientients, Creating and applying a gradientient swatch, Applying colours to additional objects, Applying the gradientient to an object, Colour management: An overview, About the device-independent colour space, About colour management engines, Colour-managing imported graphics, Assigning a profile after importing an image, Embedding a profile in a Photoshop image, Embedding a profile in an Illustrator graphic.

Also for those of you switching from QuarkXPress to InDesign CS3 you'll learn how use InDesign to do all the things you used to do in Quark. We have even created numerous pages of guides, comparisons, and tips and tricks that will help you understand how InDesign differs from Quark so you'll get up and running faster and easier.